I agree with Cody: your problem is more likely to be a rat. One got into my garage a couple of years ago and ate the leaves off the tender plants I was keeping under lights there. As Cody found, it took several different methods finally to kill the rat and save the plants. I haven't seen any sign of squirrels eating foliage, though they dig in pots (more to bury the peanuts some annoying neighbor feeds them, than to eat bulbs). I see them burying Douglas fir seeds under the trees, where the ground is covered with cyclamen plants, but they haven't eaten any cyclamen corms (yet). These are the large gray squirrels Robin mentioned, which have largely driven the small brown Douglas squirrels out of urban areas here. They also prey on birds' nests. I do not brake for squirrels. Jane McGary, Portland, Oregon, USA On 12/25/2020 11:59 AM, Cody H via pbs wrote: > Have you seen the squirrels in the act? If not, I wonder if it isn’t a > rat... I have been dealing with a similar problem, which in my case was > definitely a Norway rat that had discovered my winter growing bulbs in the > greenhouse and had been ransacking them, eating the fresh new leaves and > digging up the pots and scattering the bulbs and labels, consuming most of > them but leaving a few chewed in half here and there, or just yanking them > up and caching them under the tables in mixed piles so now I have no idea > what they are. _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net>